How do I get my S4 files to show on my laptop?

[AC Question]

how do i get my S4 files to show on my laptop?

I connect to my galaxy s4 phone to my laptop using the usb, but i can only send files to my phone from the laptop, i cant view or open my folders or files on the phone. Even when I see the folders, they are empty.

 

[Rukbat]

Re: how do i get my S4 files to show on my laptop?

Many, like /data and /system, will be because you have no rights to those folders, not even the right to see what's in them. (It's how Linux - which is th phone's operating system - works.) The folders on the SD card (internal and, if you have one installed, the external one) should almost all have files or folders in them, but some of them won't. They're created because they'll probably be needed, but nothing is put into them until there's something to put there.